tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post3298035349969601133..comments2015-08-02T03:10:39.933-04:00Comments on In the Middle: post ncs post: Portland 2012Jeffrey Cohenhttps://plus.google.com/110433684739546897626noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-8553359749769309232012-08-03T07:21:29.360-04:002012-08-03T07:21:29.360-04:00Alex: agreed! the local organizers -- especially W...Alex: agreed! the local organizers -- especially Warren Ginsburg -- worked incredibly hard under difficult circumstances to make the conference run smoothly. And it did. Of course the good (and inexpensive!) beer helped.<br /><br />Anne, happy to do it, and thank you for being a part of it.Jeffrey Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-19569186025401976112012-08-03T01:42:22.722-04:002012-08-03T01:42:22.722-04:00Great thanks to Eileen for sharing her apotheosis ...Great thanks to Eileen for sharing her apotheosis so gladly with so many, and with such energy. And thanks to you, Jeffrey, for _your_ good will and tremendous generosity. In the Middle has made such a difference - all the difference for so many conversations. It&#39;s truly exhilarating - oh the future shores (metaphoric and otherwise) that await!Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02067391488336878220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-62630751783535548562012-08-02T05:44:03.422-04:002012-08-02T05:44:03.422-04:00Though I had to miss this one, I am so excited it&...Though I had to miss this one, I am so excited it&#39;s going to be in Iceland!dorothyk98http://www.blogger.com/profile/01975465695724783981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-20840394285252141722012-08-01T22:47:16.741-04:002012-08-01T22:47:16.741-04:00I am esp. appreciative of your account of the &quo...I am esp. appreciative of your account of the &quot;sea change&quot; at the conference. I felt it too - a lot of folks I talked to did. I have never left a conference before feeling so revved up to get back to work. We owe a lot I think to the local organizers and the programme committee, and behind them to the likes of David Lawton and Ruth Evans and the current trustees - it takes a lot of work to change a culture. My happiest moment was seeing a table of graduate students at some great Portland restaurant, after some super sessions, talking happily about, I think, Augustinian phenomenology and beer. Certainly about beer.Alexandra Gillespiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08624771366686560907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-90465348318982617302012-08-01T18:52:10.159-04:002012-08-01T18:52:10.159-04:00Sometimes, when I see photographs like the one tha...Sometimes, when I see photographs like the one that accompanies this post, it reminds me why I hate time--because time passes, and we can&#39;t hang on to those moments when we haven&#39;t yet had that first sip of champagne, and the evening is held out before us like a velvet carpet, or an asteroid belt. For the first time in my life, I feel like our field is a playground, filled with friends met and unmet, and that feels right.Eileen Joyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756965845120441308noreply@blogger.com